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dennis johnson is with us from of the house. mac mcclelland is also with us. read an article about jeff bezos written by someone from the columbia school of journalism. she wrote -- interesting questions, and jeff cohen. >> these are all good questions. the one thing that is missing is the discretion of the hallowed journalistic traditions of the washington post. any media consumer who has been looking at the articles in the last day and half has heard about what will happen to the washington post journalistic tradition. the paper of watergate. the paper that exposed watergate, published the pentagon papers. serious and diligent news consumer will realize coming incidents like the watergate conspiracy and the pentagon papers, that was 40 years ago. the hallowed tradition of the washington post we are worried that bezos will ruin, -- and we do not know if it will get worse, it may not -- but that tradition, the washington post has really been a newspaper of the bipartisan consensus. in nations like iraq could hardly have happened without the editorial pages hea
dennis johnson is with us from of the house. mac mcclelland is also with us. read an article about jeff bezos written by someone from the columbia school of journalism. she wrote -- interesting questions, and jeff cohen. >> these are all good questions. the one thing that is missing is the discretion of the hallowed journalistic traditions of the washington post. any media consumer who has been looking at the articles in the last day and half has heard about what will happen to the...
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and holding a gun on us. and is nothing like the first a gun is held on you. like, we are 16, 17 years old, mind you. i just remember the protocol. i remember my father saying, if you're ever in this position, keep your hands up and move slow . he did it in a humorous way like richard pryor did. it was that type of thing. i remember that lesson. my friends didn't know that, so they just thought it was normal. i was like, get your hands up, get your hands up. how i knew that was the protocol it ist young age, i mean, probably sad commentary, but it was also, you know, a matter of survival. >> you know the judge just handed down the decision saying stop and frisk is unconstitutional in new yo. >> i was highly shocked. that is something that just came out of left field because i was also wondering, you know, will stop and frisk just be a way of life? weeks ago -- iee was not frisked, but i was for unknown reasons that i was just the wrong person in the wrong automobile. >> to exhibit? >> yeah, i get stopped all
and holding a gun on us. and is nothing like the first a gun is held on you. like, we are 16, 17 years old, mind you. i just remember the protocol. i remember my father saying, if you're ever in this position, keep your hands up and move slow . he did it in a humorous way like richard pryor did. it was that type of thing. i remember that lesson. my friends didn't know that, so they just thought it was normal. i was like, get your hands up, get your hands up. how i knew that was the protocol it...
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that wouldn't just help us have a legitimate housing recovery, it would also help us make safer and more informed decisions about economic, and terminal policies. imagine if we made decisions about mining based on what people in the community wanted. imagine schools, hospitals, prisons are based on what actual communities needed. >> tells about martha biggs in chicago. >> incredible mother of four he spent about a decade homeless in south side chicago. she was evicted twice. finally she said, i don't want my family to be sleeping in my minivan and have these think owned homes creating crime, creating. othersalong with rehabbed a bank owned home and she and her family liberated it and they still live there. >> in north carolina we see moral monday's. tell us the story about greg. >> he spent about 10 years legally fighting incredibly conjugated foreclosure in which he dealt with every single major perpetrator of these crimes. wells fargo, gmac, the robo signing -- everything. he got more than 40 foreclosure filings over the course of a decade. one time he got it dismissed. two days later
that wouldn't just help us have a legitimate housing recovery, it would also help us make safer and more informed decisions about economic, and terminal policies. imagine if we made decisions about mining based on what people in the community wanted. imagine schools, hospitals, prisons are based on what actual communities needed. >> tells about martha biggs in chicago. >> incredible mother of four he spent about a decade homeless in south side chicago. she was evicted twice. finally...
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stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> we turn now to the trial of army private riley manning is the sentencing phase winds down with a decision expected to soon as next week. on wednesday, the 25-year-old whistleblower who faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to wikileaks took the stand for about three minutes read manning told judge colonel denise lind -- manning added -- >> and army psychologist to analyze bradley manning wally served in iraq also testified wednesday, along with a clinical psychologist who spent 21 hours examining manning after his arrest. manning sister and aunt took the stand to deliver emotional testimony about manning's difficult childhood. all of this comes as several other defense witnesses took the stand this week after the government wrapped up its witnesses friday. for more we're joined by alexa o'brien and washington, d.c., who has been attending the trial daily since i
stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> we turn now to the trial of army private riley manning is the sentencing phase winds down with a decision expected to soon as next week. on wednesday, the 25-year-old whistleblower who faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to wikileaks took the stand for about three minutes read manning told judge...
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the unity riders will join us. the nypd would not give us a permit, last i heard, to walk beside our march. there is still a little of an ear about that, but there's very ,uch a shared sense of unity call for respective native rights, the core both campaigns and we are just delighted. >> how does this fit in, hydraulic fracturing? >> water is the first law of life read looking to the generations ahead of us, and protecting their future and being responsible to that, fracking, of course, impacts water amazingly. absolutely contaminated beyond redemption. futures an attack on the lives of our children and everybody else's children as well. and life in general. the laws of nature are such that from youruffer transgressions, simple as that. .eople should understand this there is no mercy in nature. none whatsoever. only the law, only the rules. if you follow those laws and rules, you have regeneration again and again. if you want to challenge those laws, you suffer the consequences. that is where we are now. .e are fra
the unity riders will join us. the nypd would not give us a permit, last i heard, to walk beside our march. there is still a little of an ear about that, but there's very ,uch a shared sense of unity call for respective native rights, the core both campaigns and we are just delighted. >> how does this fit in, hydraulic fracturing? >> water is the first law of life read looking to the generations ahead of us, and protecting their future and being responsible to that, fracking, of...
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thank you for being with us. also still with us is the founder and ceo of lavabit, ladar levison. he is with his lawyer. as you listen to the story of our guest, talk about what you received, what that caused you to do? >> i got a personal visit from fbi agents in my offices in 2004 and delivered meet a letter demanding that i hand over a lot of information about one of the clients of the company. it caused me great concern because the first thing that shocked me was that this was not a court order. this was a letter from the fbi signed by an attorney. it seemed to me that it was not a legal order, it seemed clearly not constitution on its face. the fbi had not gone to court, had not proven probable cause before a judge, and the other problem with the letter was that i could never tell any person that i have received a letter, which obviously precluded me from talking to a lawyer or to anyone about it. i was quite afraid to disobey the letter. after i took a bit of time and thought about it, i thought, we always have the right to speak to an attorney, so i spoke to my private atto
thank you for being with us. also still with us is the founder and ceo of lavabit, ladar levison. he is with his lawyer. as you listen to the story of our guest, talk about what you received, what that caused you to do? >> i got a personal visit from fbi agents in my offices in 2004 and delivered meet a letter demanding that i hand over a lot of information about one of the clients of the company. it caused me great concern because the first thing that shocked me was that this was not a...
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maintain theoth program doesn't exist or tell us lies in congress, then ask us for funding. specifically what we need is more visibility into the fisa court rulings. we understand the need for secrecy in ongoing investigations, but we need to know how the fisa court is interpreting the laws that congress has written. we need oversight over that from congress and we need redirected and declassified versions of those fisa court rulings for the public. >> what are your thoughts about russia granting temporary asylum to edward snowden, who really started this ball rolling are what the intelligence officials of this country from keith alexander to james clapper have long tonight, but now admitted they were not telling the truth about the u.s. is spying on americans? >> clearly, his disclosures have changed the course of human history, really. i think his initial disclosures were a service to our country because now we are having this conversation. and we wouldn't be having this conversation. i can't speak for mr. snowden's actions now, he is basically a person looking out for his
maintain theoth program doesn't exist or tell us lies in congress, then ask us for funding. specifically what we need is more visibility into the fisa court rulings. we understand the need for secrecy in ongoing investigations, but we need to know how the fisa court is interpreting the laws that congress has written. we need oversight over that from congress and we need redirected and declassified versions of those fisa court rulings for the public. >> what are your thoughts about russia...
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i do not want us to sound tough, i want us to sound smart. that is the problem. when folks like general hayden step in, you question them, make it offended and talk about their patriotism, talk about doing whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. i do, too, but it is important to step back and the valley with that. that is what oversight is about. -- evaluating that. is this the best approach to this situation? americans save in the best and smartest way possible. ofo not think a bunch trumped up but she's no is the best way to do it. machismo is the best way to do it. it leads to people believing that they do not care about national security. the response that you get in some of those communities -- and these are patriotic americans and go to work every day to keep americans safe -- but i am troubled about the response to those expressing concerns, and to treat them as a threat equal to allocate a. al-qaeda. you called the critics nihilists and activists. jennifer hoelzer, thank you for being with us. former chief of staff for democratic center of oregon
i do not want us to sound tough, i want us to sound smart. that is the problem. when folks like general hayden step in, you question them, make it offended and talk about their patriotism, talk about doing whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. i do, too, but it is important to step back and the valley with that. that is what oversight is about. -- evaluating that. is this the best approach to this situation? americans save in the best and smartest way possible. ofo not think a bunch...
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they didn't do that with us. in some ways it is reflective of underlying challenges we have had with russia lately. >> president obama also responded to the growing controversy over the wide ranging nsa surveillance programs that edward snowden has revealed. >> a lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. i had some skepticism and i think we should have healthy skepticism about what government is doing. i had the programs reviewed and putting additional safeguards to make sure there is federal court oversight as well as congressional oversight, that there is no spying on americans. we don't have a domestic spying program. what we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or e-mail address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. >> edward snowden's father says he believes president clinton will continue to stand firm in the face of pressure from the obama administration to hand --r his son whom the name president vladimir putin will continue to stand firm in t
they didn't do that with us. in some ways it is reflective of underlying challenges we have had with russia lately. >> president obama also responded to the growing controversy over the wide ranging nsa surveillance programs that edward snowden has revealed. >> a lot of these programs were put in place before i came in. i had some skepticism and i think we should have healthy skepticism about what government is doing. i had the programs reviewed and putting additional safeguards to...
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thank you for being with us for this hour. book,mford, most recent "the shadow factory: the ultra- secret nsa from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on america." his most recent piece, "they know much more than you think." thank you so much to spencer ackerman, national security editor at the guardian. we will have a link your piece as well called, "u.s. government declassifies court order on nsa surveillance as pressure builds." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed
thank you for being with us for this hour. book,mford, most recent "the shadow factory: the ultra- secret nsa from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on america." his most recent piece, "they know much more than you think." thank you so much to spencer ackerman, national security editor at the guardian. we will have a link your piece as well called, "u.s. government declassifies court order on nsa surveillance as pressure builds." democracy now! is looking for feedback from...
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use these words to obscure what is going on. the fact is, these laws allow the government to listen in on americans phone calls and to read americans e-mails in an extraordinary number of circumstances, and the government has not been forthcoming about that authority and are not being forthcoming now and they suggest these violations are minimal. these are thousands of violations every year and each violation could affect hundreds or even thousands of americans, but we still don't have the basic facts. >> and the significance of the , 202,02 -- the error instead of monitoring egypt, which is 20, what does that mean? >> that means thousands of calls and easy were swept up into the nsa database when you're supposed to be targeting egypt abroad. >> did they get purged? >> we don't know enough about that story. there is not enough transparency. the public debate now is incredible and was instigated by whistleblowers, leaks. but the fact that we had to wait for those leaks to have this conversation is problematic. >> and the signific
use these words to obscure what is going on. the fact is, these laws allow the government to listen in on americans phone calls and to read americans e-mails in an extraordinary number of circumstances, and the government has not been forthcoming about that authority and are not being forthcoming now and they suggest these violations are minimal. these are thousands of violations every year and each violation could affect hundreds or even thousands of americans, but we still don't have the...
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there are what lead us to have or allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter that i refer to. if we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys. the 702ay, it is program that has allowed us to pick up on this chatter. that is the program that allows us to listen overseas, not on domestic soil, but overseas. >> opponents of the nsa sweeping program held action sunday. the group protested in several u.s. cities on what it dubbed 1984 date. the group held its first run a protest on july 4. in a ran, hasan rouhani took the presidential oath of office replacing outgoing president ahmadinejad. he is seen as a moderate who could pave the way for talks disputedds i --ran's nuclear program. the focused on the country's oil exports, enforcing sanctions. he called for an end to the sanctions. >> interactions based on equal footing and cooperation will be the basis of our relations with other countries. on this basis, proportionate to the behavior and approach of the other side, in view of improving and promoting future ties, we will ascerta
there are what lead us to have or allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter that i refer to. if we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys. the 702ay, it is program that has allowed us to pick up on this chatter. that is the program that allows us to listen overseas, not on domestic soil, but overseas. >> opponents of the nsa sweeping program held action sunday. the group protested in several u.s. cities on what it dubbed 1984...